Reviews Archives - Page 2 of 15 - Criminal Element -- Login / Register Search for: -- Search for: Read Excerpts Reviews Author Spotlight Essays Interviews Book Listicles On-Screen Television Film Trailers Cooking the Books Newsletter Login / Register Reviews Book Review: Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor By Janet Webb September 16, 2025 Hunters Heart Ridge is the second book in Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Franklin Warren and Alice Bellows mystery series. It’s set in Vermont in the mid-1960s, specifically, “November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont’s regular deer season,” a time when out-of-towners return year after year to hunt deer and renew long-standing friendships. Taylor’s first… Book Review: The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols By Doreen Sheridan September 15, 2025 The inhabitants of the Marigold Cottages in Santa Barbara, California are a varied bunch, presided over by their kindly if meddling landlady, fondly known to all as Mrs. B. Aspiring playwright Sophie’s cottage is closest to the street, which allows her to indulge in her habit of hypervigilance. Thus, she’s the first of the inhabitants… Book Review: Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz By Doreen Sheridan August 25, 2025 Cape Cherry’s J Everett School is not your typical high school. Every student enrolled there is looking forward to pursuing a career in investigation, whether it be via criminology, forensics or another related specialty. Dulce Castillo has always wanted to be a detective, and with her best friend Emi Nakamura is determined to win this… Book Review: Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan By Doreen Sheridan August 23, 2025 Girls have always disappeared by the Salton Sea. That’s just the way it is, with Mexicali kids slipping into the darkness unnoticed by anyone outside their community. Elena Veracruz was one of those girls, a beautiful teenager with dreams of moving to Los Angeles to become a Laker Girl, until she fell off the face… Book Review: The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr By Doreen Sheridan August 22, 2025 Given the state of the world in 2025, it’s not at all hard to imagine a near future where humanity is increasingly dependent on Large Language Artificial Intelligence models to help plan out our days and make all sorts of decisions for us, small and large. In Paul Bradley Carr’s newest novel, CEO Kaitlan Goss… Book Review: High Season by Katie Bishop By Jeff Ayers August 17, 2025 Bishop’s latest novel explores the lives of several people over two different decades, and the lasting consequences of their decisions in this compelling page-turner. In the south of France in 2004, deep into the hot summer, Tamara Drayton was found in her family’s pool, floating face down. She was only seventeen years old. Her six-year-old… Book Review: We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter By Jeff Ayers August 16, 2025 Slaughter starts a new series that introduces readers to North Falls, a small Georgia town where everyone seems to know everything about each other, but in reality, the secrets and lies prove the exact opposite. Officer Emmy Clifton lets personal issues cloud her judgment, and on the 4th of July, she’s approached by her best… Book Review: Love You To Death by Christina Dotson By Doreen Sheridan August 11, 2025 Kayla Davenport and Zorie Andrews have been best friends since grade school. They’ve seen each other through some of the best and worst times of their lives, and have had each other’s backs through thick and thin. Now they both work in housekeeping at the Chamberlain Hotel, a thankless job that barely pays the bills… Book Review: This Stays Between Us by Sara Ochs By Doreen Sheridan July 28, 2025 Ten years ago, a group of eight college students from all over the world went to Australia for a study abroad program. Over the course of several tumultuous weeks, they bonded in friendship and adventure, falling in and out of love while touring the country and enjoying the quintessential Aussie experience. Alas, not all of… Book Review: One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford By Doreen Sheridan July 25, 2025 When an epidemic that turns its victims into zombies out of science fiction rips through London, the city – even the world – is caught unprepared. The United Kingdom immediately goes into a lockdown eerily familiar to modern readers, as the government seeks to contain and eradicate the threat.  Weeks pass, and everything is slowly… « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 … 15 Next Page » About Advertise With Us Terms of Use Privacy Notice Your Privacy Choices Contact Us Site Powered by Supadu The owner of this website has made a commitment to accessibility and inclusion, please report any problems that you encounter using the contact form on this website. This site uses the WP ADA Compliance Check plugin to enhance accessibility.